RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 6, 2015 at 1:17 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2015 at 1:18 pm by Longhorn.)
Pool, x=/=y just because you say it does. That's the problem with your argument, if you can call it that.
If there were no theists, everyone would be atheists, because nobody would believe in god. It's that simple. The evidence of atheism isn't dependent on theism, the term's existence is.
If there were no people who believe in fairies, nobody would believe in fairies. The only difference between the two situations is that in the first we have separate words for both kinds of people.
I don't know how to put it simpler.
If there were no theists, everyone would be atheists, because nobody would believe in god. It's that simple. The evidence of atheism isn't dependent on theism, the term's existence is.
If there were no people who believe in fairies, nobody would believe in fairies. The only difference between the two situations is that in the first we have separate words for both kinds of people.
I don't know how to put it simpler.